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Originally Posted by redpoint5
It falls flat by not mentioning the singular and glaring weakness of EVs; the battery. Anyone wanting to promote EVs needs to address that elephant in the room, and then explain why the other strengths are worth what is essentially a $10,000 gas tank, that shrinks in capacity over time, that takes an eternity to fill, that requires environmental regulation, that takes up a lot of space and weighs a lot, and that when subsidized at $10,000, still accounts for only 2% of the passenger vehicle sales, represents a huge achilles heel.
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The benefit of a battery is long term savings on the fuel. Yes, upfront a battery is expensive but the fuel (electricity) is much cheaper than gas and more than makes up for the original battery purchase.
Yes, EVs are only 2% of sales in the USA but the USA is a minor player in the EV markets (10% of 2020 EV sales) Europe is the EV leader now with China right behind. (Europe EV sales were up 137% to 1.4 million in a vehicle market down 20% overall)
Global EV sales we up 43% in 2020 with a 4.2% market share.